The head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency proposes building a prison island guarded by crocodiles to house death-row drug convicts.

Budi Waseso said crocodiles often made better guards than humans - because they could not be bribed.

He said he would visit different parts of the Indonesian archipelago in order to find the fiercest reptiles. Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and ended a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.

“We will place as many crocodiles as we can there,” Mr Waseso was quoted as saying by local news website Tempo.

Except they probably forgot crocodiles are ambush predators, they can’t run worth for shit…except for 1 second bursts. Not sure how it’s going to work out though, are they gonna throw like 80 crocs in there?

you can’t bride a croc… not even with a months supply of the kitchen slop they been given? how about bribing them with another inmate, kidnap and throw the one you hate in the line of fire, wait for the feeding frenzy… profit

all in all this sounds fantastic and I can’t wait to read what happens in a month.

(The thread title is indeed silly despite just a plain descriptor of the situation.)

Even ignoring how silly the whole idea is, anti-bribery aside, this thing sounds like a logistical nightmare for various reasons, including that even if you aren’t using humans as guards, then you still need humans to help feed the crocodiles unless you’re planning on them killing all of the inmates anyway and just doing it an extremely roundabout way that doesn’t even have plausible deniability.

(The thread title is indeed silly despite just a plain descriptor of the situation.)

Even ignoring how silly the whole idea is, anti-bribery aside, this thing sounds like a logistical nightmare for various reasons, including that even if you aren’t using humans as guards, then you still need humans to help feed the crocodiles unless you’re planning on them killing all of the inmates anyway and just doing it an extremely roundabout way that doesn’t even have plausible deniability.